The “Gray Lady” (the New York Times) carries the banner, “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, but it might consider changing it to “All the Fiction We Can Think Of”. No greater example of the decline of the newspaper can be found in it’s ongoing initiative of the 1619 Project, an example of revisionist history at it’s poorest.

In 1963 the Democrats faced a crisis as great as Watergate, but they were saved by the assignation of President Kennedy.  Bobby Baker, the “child of the Senate” was under investigation for bribery, fraud, and numerous other felonies.  The investigation ended when Lyndon Johnson became President as the nation was focused on the new President and his determination to make his mark on the Presidency.